Editing 1605 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* First recorded use of the word ''[[Chemistry]]'' ("Chymistrie") in [[English language|English]], in [[Thomas Tymme]]'s ''The Practice of Chymicall and Hermeticall Physicke'', translated from [[Joseph Duchesne]].<ref>{{cite web|title=chemistry, ''n''.|work=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] online version|publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31274?redirectedFrom=Chemistry#footerWrapper|accessdate=2011-11-02 |date=September 2011}} {{OEDsub}}</ref>
* The phenomenon of [[mechanoluminescence]] is first discovered by Sir [[Francis Bacon]] from scratching [[sugar]] with a knife.
* [[Michal Sedziwój]] publishes the alchemical treatise ''A New Light of Alchemy'' which proposes the existence of the "food of life" within air, much later recognized as [[oxygen]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sedziwój, Michal |work=infopoland: Poland on the Web |publisher=University at Buffalo |url=http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/sci_health/science/scientists/sedziwoj/link.shtml |accessdate=2007-02-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902171948/http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/sci_health/science/scientists/sedziwoj/link.shtml |archivedate=2006-09-02 }}</ref>
* [[Chartreuse (liqueur)]] is first recorded in an alchemical manuscript; it will be made by [[Carthusian]] [[monk]]s, named for the great charterhouse (''la grande Chartreuse'').